May 11, 2012

"It didn’t bother you to see the world tiny and unprotected, surrounded by darkness?”

In a recent episode of Mad Men titled 'Lady Lazarus,' Pete Campbell has an existential crisis when he sees a picture of the Earth from space, but were there color pictures of the whole Earth in October 1966? First some background...

On MetaFilter, quartzcity takes us through the history of space travel and photography and the birth of the Spaceship Earth meme. I'm not sure how deeply Matt Weiner thinks about references like this when he is writing Mad Men - but this MetaFilter post is a wonderful example of the community around a show being more interesting than the show itself.

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